Potosi, Through Children’s Eyes (Where Were You When You Were Twelve?)
We eat the mountain…and the mountain eats us.
– David, a mine guide and former miner in Potosi, echoes a decades-old sentiment about the city’s lifeblood, its world-famous silver mines.
It was late morning and the sun was bright, the sky crystal at 13,400 feet in Potosi, Bolivia. We were being tended to by a group of schoolgirls dressed as nurses at a hygiene fair; they sought to teach us the methods and benefits of properly washing our hands.
The mood: uplifting and hopeful.
Contrast this with just the day before. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Bolivia, Perspectives, South America, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
17 Comments | 21 January 2010
